EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[BullChick]

You want I should change my name so I don't stir up bad memories?

Yes! Your new name is COFFEE!!!!!!

 

[kwhites634]

Yes! Your new name is COFFEE!!!!!!

Is that your final answer? I seem to remember you saying, yesterday or the day before, that you loved coffee, and possibly Wesley

 

[BullChick]

Is that your final answer? I seem to remember you saying, yesterday or the day before, that you loved coffee, and possibly Wesley

I regretted it as soon as I posted it.
Okay, what is your middle name?

 

[kwhites634]

I regretted it as soon as I posted it.
Okay, what is your middle name?

I'm afraid that's classified information; strictly on a need-to-know basis. If I told you, ....well....

 

[BullChick]

I'm afraid that's classified information; strictly on a need-to-know basis. If I told you, ....well....

 

[kwhites634]

Okay (doesn't everyone these days start a sentence with that word?), I just read a thread where the OP was wanting to know the best LF breed for a broody hen. The majority seemed to favor Cochins or Wyandottes, if they had a specific preference at all. Whatcha all think?...there will be a test later.

 

[BullChick]

Okay (doesn't everyone these days start a sentence with that word?), I just read a thread where the OP was wanting to know the best LF breed for a broody hen. The majority seemed to favor Cochins or Wyandottes, if they had a specific preference at all. Whatcha all think?...there will be a test later.

Buff Orpington Cochin, or Silky.
And yes. It is common to start posts that way.

 

[BantyChooks]

Okay (doesn't everyone these days start a sentence with that word?), I just read a thread where the OP was wanting to know the best LF breed for a broody hen. The majority seemed to favor Cochins or Wyandottes, if they had a specific preference at all. Whatcha all think?...there will be a test later.

Wyandottes? I haven't heard that one before. I can't comment much though because I rarely have broody LF—the bantams are the nutty brooders here.

 

[Faraday40]

Okay (doesn't everyone these days start a sentence with that word?), I just read a thread where the OP was wanting to know the best LF breed for a broody hen. The majority seemed to favor Cochins or Wyandottes, if they had a specific preference at all. Whatcha all think?...there will be a test later.

@BantyChooks x2 on the bantam broodies!

I have a LF mauve & LF blue orpington that will go broody - each about 2xs per year. Because of their size, they can cover a lot of eggs. The bantam orp will go broody up to 5-6 xs per year and my silkie decided to hatch eggs in Dec. She stayed out in the coop with her chicks when it was well below zero!

 

[BantyChooks]

@BantyChooks x2 on the bantam broodies!

I have a LF mauve & LF blue orpington that will go broody - each about 2xs per year. Because of their size, they can cover a lot of eggs. The bantam orp will go broody up to 5-6 xs per year and my silkie decided to hatch eggs in Dec. She stayed out in the coop with her chicks when it was well below zero!

I am hoping my Partridge Chanteclers will go broody this summer so that I can hatch batches larger than three eggs. Jace, my OEGB hen, is a good broody... but she's a little bitty thing; anything larger than a bantam egg makes her look like she's sitting on a pumpkin.